Rant Wednesday!

Have been holding on to this one. Backstory - we recently upgraded our core switches from Cisco 7K's to 9K. Now it's time to upgrade our F5's. We have some legacy apps that are so finicky that an F5 failover causes a 4-hr downtime while all the legs have to be rebooted! keeping this in mind...

This image shows the setup, left is how we are setup, right was my proposed design. This is not a detailed diagram, yes I know how to setup a VPC and port-channels.

The idea here was to minimize disruption when a core goes down or has issues, the primary F5 will still have a link up and maybe, just maybe save us some headache.

Proposal is rejected as it causes too much confusion during troubleshooting! Architect wants to keep it simple. A team voting was taken and the design on the left was finalized.

All I wanted was to minimize any single points of failure and provide as much redundancy as possible. Do you folks have voting on what architecture you pick?

I have given up caring.

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